Don't include me in a specific debate with another poster.
I have no clue what your post said. My line of question marks was meant to indicate I didn't understand.
I have had none of my questions on this thread blown off by anyone, I would like to think you would be willing to follow the trend.
Is your question always a string of question marks?
The NST is really a tax "of the gross payments" including itself (and everything else in "the gross payments").
The 23% rate thrown around is (intentionally) misleading.
The 23% rate in sales tax terms is actually 29.87%...An item sub-totalling $100.00 before the federal tax would cost $129.87 (gross payment)
$29.87 is 23% of $129.87 (gross payment)
The fairtax shills will declare to their death that "gross payments" doesn't really mean "gross payments". The wording of the legislation and the defintion in the legislation proves otherwise..How could it not?
It isn't a simple sales tax like you might have in your state.